Pruthi RS and Wallen EM (2008) Is robotic radical cystectomy an appropriate treatment for bladder cancer? Short-term oncologic and clinical follow-up in 50 consecutive patients. Urology 72: 617 ...

It’s recommended for people with aggressive cancer (one that grows or spreads quickly) or cancer affecting the muscle layer of the bladder wall. You may be eligible for a partial cystectomy (in ...

Complete removal of the bladder (cystectomy) is the treatment of choice. This provides excellent control of the primary tumor and removes all of the primary lymph node drainage and any potential ...

who were not receiving surgery to remove the bladder (cystectomy) and nearby lymph nodes, has been discontinued after it showed no improvement over the standard chemoradiation treatment for this ...

Prior studies have indicated that the majority of elderly patients with clinically localized muscle invasive bladder cancer do not undergo radical cystectomy as recommended by evidence-based ...

Other indications for radical cystectomy are micropapillary disease ... non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer at this time. Upper-tract evaluation is also important in the initial staging work ...

cystectomy in eight, and/or systemic therapy in seven. At last follow-up, 12 (48%) of the 25 patients remained metastasis free with an intact and non-irradiated bladder. The 2-year OS was 84.3% in ...

A urachal cyst is a sac of tissue and fluid between the bladder and the belly button (umbilicus). The cyst forms in the remnants of the urachus, a structure normally present in a fetus that ...

Following a prospective FDA nod, J&J aims to offer a potentially less invasive alternative to the current standard treatment, radical cystectomy (complete bladder removal). The RTOR program also ...